Promoting sustainable development or legitimising free trade? Civil society mechanisms in EU trade agreements
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عنوان ژورنال: Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2380-2014,2379-9978
DOI: 10.1080/23802014.2016.1294032